Topic by Trajectory 2016-02-09 05:51:37

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Hello,
Is the site in trouble?
Since the new year I've noticed that the forums have gone down -- for several days to a week -- on two separate occasions. CloudFlare reports that it received an HTTP error 502.
Maybe it's not my place to say this, but you should probably be considering a hosting move.
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Reply by CAE_Jones 2016-02-09 07:50:29

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I've noticed the forum go down before, but I don't remember it going down for more than five minutes since the new year.
Maybe Cloud Flare is having issue with seemingly random users for unknown reasons? It did seem to be snagging a bit a few weeks ago.

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Reply by Sebby 2016-02-09 09:49:27

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Yeah, can't say I've noticed. My scripts (which ping the forum every now and then) occasionally report problems, but not for long.

I think @CAE_Jones has it about right: it's probably an intermittent, possibly localised issue. I'll keep an ear out.

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Reply by jaybird 2016-02-09 19:51:19

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I have to agree here. I visit the forum at least once per day, usually several times per day. I have yet to see it down since the beginning of the year.

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Reply by aaron 2016-02-09 20:03:44

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Hello,
I've actually noticed this issue with other sites using cloud-based hosting and services, and I'm not entirely sure why this could be. At one point there was a site called doctor who tv which is a fansite that reports news and such, and it kept randomly going down and was also using a cloud service.

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Reply by Trajectory 2016-02-09 21:35:40

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Okay, so maybe this is an issue with a hop somewhere between your server, Cloudflare and me. If this happens again I can try connecting via a proxy and let you know if I can connect. The site just recently came back up for me (in the last few days) and it was out for about a week.

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Reply by Sebby 2016-02-12 11:53:45

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Is it just the forum, specifically, or are you seeing this with the main site?

Just myself, as usual.

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Reply by Trajectory 2016-02-12 23:31:08

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It's just the forum. The home page loads fine. Click forum, it waits about 30 seconds and times out with a cloudflare error.

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